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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

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